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Harrison has garnered critical acclaim for masterpieces such as "Legends of the Fall, The Beast God Forgot to Invent, " and, most recently, "Returning to Earth." Now, "The Woman Lit by Fireflies, " one of his best-loved books, is available in a paperback edition.

Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him." --The Times (London)

Harrison was suicidal while writing Letters to Yesenin, these poems saved his life.

Harrisons last novel, Returning to Earth, was one of his most praised in years, hailed by The Plain Dealer as an artistic achievement worthy of Faulkner. Now Harrison gives us The English Major, a wryly funny novel that sparkles with the generous humanity of his vision.

Newly divorced, sixty-someting Cliff is off on a road trip across America. His adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student and into the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer.

The Farmers Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today.

The Farmers Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished and important authors at work today.

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THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER is a collection of three novellas portraying three very unconventional lives. With wit, poignancy and an unbounded love for his characters, Jim Harrison reminds us why he is one of the most cherished authors at work today.

John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployment foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil to Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan while also spying on his employer's wife and son...

For the first time, all of Harrison's food writing is available in one volume. Any reader of Harrison's fiction is struck by the love for food, wine, and other sensual pleasures that permeates it--and anyone who has read his essays and journalism has encountered a food critic unlike any other: unpretentious, witty, and unabashedly passionate.

An authoritative, best-selling edition of poetry by acclaimed novelist--now available in paper.

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Jim Harrison" Somewhere in that big literary acreage staked out by Thoreau, Hemingway, and Hunter Thompson is a chunk of space for Jim Harrison"- Playboy

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a malevolent father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister ...

Jim Harrison's essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and the AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW. They explore the passions and concerns of a classic American writer: ice fishing and bar pool, nouvelle cuisine and night walks.

An American epic, rich in atmosphere and history, here is the story of a magnificent, unforgettable woman--a tale that sweeps from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam.